"Roughly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bestowal of this title by Horace Walpole, in his later days, on Edward Jerningham, playwright, poetaster, and petit maitre, who, unluckily for himself, lived into the more roughly satirical ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... because we have one of the kindest and best fathers and husbands and good brothers, who would not permit the winds of heaven to visit us too roughly, there is no reason we should throw ourselves between the sunshine and our less fortunate sisters who shiver ...
— Sowing and Reaping • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
... the eye wearied; miles and leagues slid together to indistinguishable inches. Then came a low line of scattered hills that roughly marked the Mexican border. ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... though our conscious flesh and blood life is the only one that we can fully apprehend, yet we do also indeed move, even here, in an unseen world, wherein, when our palpable life is ended, we shall continue to live for a shorter or longer time—reaping roughly, though not infallibly, much as we have sown. Of this unseen world the best men and women will be almost as heedless while in the flesh as they will be when their life in flesh is over; for, as the Sunchild often said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven cometh not ...
— Erewhon Revisited • Samuel Butler
... one remaining. This book is written in Latin of great purity, and shows that the author was master of a clear style, though the nature of the work did not admit him to exhibit many of the graces of diction. The Commentaries seem to have been put into form in winter quarters, though roughly written during the actual campaigns. Csar always took pleasure in literary pursuits and in the ...
— The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic • Arthur Gilman
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